
Dave Santoni
Managing Director, Business Development at Audax Private Equity
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Aug 5, 2026
Private Equity Deal Sourcing with Audax’s Dave Santoni
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Sean MooneyHOST
All right, so Dave, why don't you take us a little bit further back? Can you talk about, like, where you grew up, college, first job out of college, and then what you did along your pathway to ultimately getting into private equity?

Dave SantoniGUEST
My parents were both longtime Philadelphia residents and lived in Philly until sixth grade.

Dave SantoniGUEST
My father was a lawyer and decided he wanted to become a professor, and he told my sister and I and my mother that we were gonna move to Omaha, Nebraska when I was in sixth grade.

Dave SantoniGUEST
My father ended up teaching law school at Creighton in Omaha, and I went to high school there.

Dave SantoniGUEST
Had a great life in Omaha, have one daughter that's actually at Creighton now, so it gives me a reason to go to Omaha.
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Sean MooneyHOST
And then also, I think a lot of people are curious, how do you manage the interplay between the deal teams, the business development teams, the PE operating professionals, and then the Portco leadership team? How does that all work together?